Word: limpness
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...merely Lady Starcross' or was Playwright Morgan's own. But it was hard to care much, for even at its best, when its two stars were effectively defiant or hysterical, the play had only a stagy force. For the most part, it was loaded with exposition and limp from reminiscence; nor would the suspicion down that Starcross was no less a bore than he was a fake...
...Olympic ski jump, Vag watched the American team practice. There was something devil-may-care about these skiers. Whenever one landed in a heap of snow at the bottom of the jump, he would shake it off and bravely limp to a group of enthralled girls. Later in the evening everyone within hearing distance of the Olympians knew about the terrific headwinds that had cut fifty or so feet off each one's final jump. Vag felt foolish after he said he had not felt a breath...
...leave you with a limp." Mr. Clarkson told Terry, but the boy, then n, thought it was worth while, and his mother agreed. So he spent six weeks in an uncomfortable position, with his fingerless left hand joined to the toes of his left foot by a skin flap. Then Surgeon Clarkson amputated the toes and grafted them in place of the missing fingers. That was 4½ years...
...Surgeon Clarkson knows, this is the first transfer of a complete set of five digits. Terry's new fingers will probably never grow longer than they would have as toes. But there is hope that they will keep on growing for a while. As for that limp, his shortened left foot does not keep Terry, now 16, from playing soccer with his schoolmates...
...Captain's Paradise, one is left with a feeling of exaltation--not the limp kind of exaltation which follows the portrayal of great feats of daring and triumphs of the human spirit, but the cocky exaltation of one who can conquer all without ever rising above the commonplace. For Alec Guinness, here cast in the pose of Captain Henry St. James, was a commonplace man--of that you may be assured. He guided the packet Golden Fleece across the Straits of Gibraltar much in the manner of any ferry captain. Yet in a happy moment of inspiration he conceived...